SERVICE LEARNING REPORT Nursing Program Service Learning Report SERVICE LEARNING REPORT 2 Poverty is one of the major issues that any country in this world has to deal with. Currently, one third of the Oklahoma population is enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. With the ongoing cuts in state budgets and increases in unemployment, the percentage of the population receiving assistance is growing larger. Many
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Health assessment patterns supporting patient focused care Mary Aguon, RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Introduction As registered nurses, a fundamental objective of the practice is to provide holistic and patient focused care. A diverse population, varying family dynamics, and distinct personal patient preferences serves as a challenge that nurses must overcome on a daily basis. In order to provide the upmost care for patients, nurses must conduct assessments and analyze data to
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION This research is conducted on the topic, “Employee Health and Safety”. Under this topic we have managed to cover many aspects of employee protection. This chapter contains the introduction to the research conducted, the basic research objectives and the importance and logical basis of the study carried out. 1. INTRODUCTION Employee Health and Safety is a very vast topic that comes under human resource management and is a very important one at the same time. Every
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in health visiting Join the team and make a difference 2 Welcome to the team web www.nhscareers.nhs.uk www.nhscareers.nhs.uk Welcome to the medical team 1 Contents Being a health visitor Entry requirements and training Your health visiting career 3 9 10 Working in the NHS What’s your next step? 12 16 2 Health visiting www.nhscareers.nhs.uk Foreword A career in health visiting offers the opportunity to work in an environment that is interesting, rewarding and challenging. Health visitors
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#1 Access to Health Care: Improving overall health status Equality in Access to health services is one of the forty two topic areas in Healthy People 2020 that caught my view as one of the objectives to have the highest importance in achieving a national goal of healthy Americans in the future. But what does access to health care actually means? According Gulliford et al (2002), facilitating access to health is concerned with helping people to command appropriate health care resources in order
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responsibilities of a mentor will be discussed. Finally, the importance of effective teamwork within a clinical setting environment will be examined. To comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2008) all confidential information will be withheld and names changed. According to the NMC (2006) students on an NMC approved pre-registration nursing course must be supported and assessed by a mentor. The mentor must be registered on a local register and must demonstrate their knowledge, skills and competences
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Quality Management Assessment Summary HCS/451 Health Care Quality Management and Outcomes Analysis Quality Management Quality management is a systematic and continuous process that organizations use to deliver products and services that meet or exceed customer expectations. Quality management in healthcare has evolved over the years to address increased demands from consumers related to the quality of care and services, as well as to address problems in patients’ outcomes. The
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and Associated Risk Factors Sarah A.T. Harris HiNursing Hawaii Nursing LLC (HiNursing) is a nurse staffing company that operates under HiHealthcare, which is a subsidiary of The Hawaii Group family (HiGroup). HiNursing is a legacy of Scott Craun, RN and the company he started, Island Nurses, which was acquired by HiGroup on December 1st, 2012 (Silverstein, 2012). The company provides registered nurses (RN), certified nursing assistants (CNA), and medical assistant (MA) positions statewide to
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Public Health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment, control of communicable diseases, the education of individuals in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so
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d Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Institute of Nursing, Winterthur, Switzerland Department of Education, Training and Professional Development, Stadtspital Waid Zurich, Switzerland Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Switzerland Department of Medicine, Pourtalès Hospital, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Correspondence: Lorenz Imhof PhD RN Zurich University of Applied Sciences Institute of Nursing School of Health Professions Technikumstr. 71 CH-8401 Winterthur Switzerland lorenz
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